Um faro para a modernidade: breves notas sobre o(s) outro(s) mundo(s) de Cyrano de Bergerac

Literary posterity well knows Cyrano de Bergerac, we might admit, by reason of his big nose. However, such nose allowed him to smell consciously some eminently modern literary issues, overcoming seventeenth-century Fine Letters registry. How can we deny, for example, that Les Entretiens Pointus cast suspicion on the icastic verisimilitude? How not to recognize in L’Autre Monde, which projects the reader on states outer of terrestrial world, an exuberant literary Moon and Sun immersed in fantastic genre, openly opposed, once again, to the icastic genre? This article aims to examine some texts of Cyrano de Bergerac looking for the constituent elements of a poetic fiction fully supported on the direct or indirect opposition between icastic mimesis, as conceived in Plato’s Sophist, and fantastic mimesis. Such opposition opens the literary debate in a century perpassed by the complaints on the possibilities of a fiction liberated from classic rules